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About Margaret Kimberley

Margaret Kimberley’s Freedom Rider column appears weekly in BAR, and is widely reprinted elsewhere.
  • UK Prime Minister David Cameron and Barack Obama in 2014, three years after they and others destroyed Libya. (Photo: PA Images)

    Why Barack Obama can’t shut up

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on September 20, 2023 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Barack Obama devastated millions of people all over the world and speaks of his actions as if they were committed by someone else. It is a masterful performance by a man committed to deception.

  • Joe Biden during 2020 campaign (Image: courtesy CNN)

    The climate crisis will end when capitalism ends

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on August 30, 2023 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Humans have an infinite capacity for wishful thinking, but a revolutionary project is by definition a recognition that wishes are for fairy tales.

  • Photo: Eritrea Ministry of Information

    Eritrea celebrates freedom

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on August 9, 2023 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Eritrea is an example of an independent and self-determining African state. Its people are rightly proud of their history.

  • Venezuela and the Caribbean region

    The U.S. plot to finalize the theft of Venezuela’s oil

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on August 2, 2023 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    The U.S. has used its influence to steal another country’s oil revenues. Venezuela is in the crosshairs because it dares to be socialist in the hemisphere the U.S. claims as it’s “backyard.”

  • Image: Library of Congress

    The Supreme Court and political corruption

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on July 5, 2023 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    The Supreme Court has always been a political institution. Racism, political expediency, and outright corruption have always dictated its decisions.

  • Artisanal miners in Democratic Republic of Congo (Photo: Lynsey Addario—Getty Images Reportage for TIME)

    OceanGate and how the wealthy kill

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on June 28, 2023 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    The saga of the OceanGate Titan submersible was the sort of story that rivets millions of people. Not only was it revealed that passengers paid $250,000 to see the wreck of the Titanic, but the vessel was poorly built, and its creator ignored warnings about its defects and continued to use it.

  • Kamau Franklin of Community Movement Builders and other organizers announce a ballot referendum effort at a June 7 press conference in Atlanta. (Photo: Twitter @Micahinatl)

    State repression targets the Stop Cop City movement

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on June 7, 2023 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Cop City is an effort to ensure that state violence will bring the most draconian methods to bear against Black people. State violence is also being used proactively, in an effort to end opposition to this creation of Atlanta’s white ruling class and their errand boys and girls who ostensibly control a fake mecca for Black people.

  • Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich in 1995. (Photo: John Mottern/AFP)

    Biden’s debt ceiling betrayal is a Democratic Party tradition

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on May 24, 2023 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Joe Biden is continuing the ignoble tradition of colluding with republicans while pretending to fight them. The latest debt limit drama is another betrayal of the people.

  • Image: www.revcom.us

    The murder of Jordan Neely Abetted by Eric Adams, worst Black Mayor in the Country

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on May 10, 2023 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Black New Yorkers should have a semblance of confidence that their lives can’t be snuffed out without a killer being punished.

  • Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Breon Peace said the case “reveals the Chinese government’s flagrant violation of our nation’s sovereignty.” (Photo: Andrew Harnik AP)

    Chinese “police stations” and war propaganda

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on April 19, 2023 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    The U.S. can shoot down balloons, call names, and claim that China has “police stations” in New York City. It cannot stop the decline of its own making as it engages in war propaganda theater.

  • Review of a book which claims an "authoritarian turn" for Nicaragua's Black community. (Image: Labour Hub)

    Black people used to attack revolutionary governments

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on April 12, 2023 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    The question of how Black people fare in a particular country can be a legitimate issue or a ruse used in the furtherance of U.S. regime change plots.

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    East Palestine, Ohio and the Oligarchy

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on March 1, 2023 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    A freight train derailment brought environmental catastrophe to a small Ohio town. While the circumstances are somewhat unique, events followed a predictable pattern in a country run by and for the ruling class.

  • “The Norwegian navy was quick to find the right spot, in the shallow water a few miles off Denmark’s Bornholm Island” (Image: Seymour Hersh Substack)

    Did the U.S. blow up Nord Stream if there is no media to report it?

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on February 15, 2023 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    A respected investigative journalist explains how the U.S. sabotaged the Nord Stream pipelines. But corporate media working in service to the state ignore the story and endanger the world.

  • Victoria Nuland

    The U.S. continues escalating in Ukraine

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on February 1, 2023 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    The U.S. got more than it bargained for after instigating the Ukrainian conflict. The Biden foreign policy team grows more desperate and their plans become more dangerous as they reckon with the unintended consequences of their actions.

  • Manuel Esteban Paez Terán

    Cop City kills before it opens

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on January 25, 2023 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    What could possibly go wrong with a $90 million, 85-acre police training ground that the community doesn’t want? Someone could be killed, and that happened before Atlanta’s awful Cop City project has even been built.

  • Ukraine's military Commander in Chief, General Valerii Zaluzhny, celebrates the birthday of Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera (Photo: Twitter)

    White Lives Matter more in Ukraine

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on January 4, 2023 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    The open white supremacy and fascism exhibited in Ukraine are conveniently swept under the rug. Nazis are bad, unless they serve the interests of the U.S. state.

  • Brittney Griner and Viktor Boot

    Brittney Griner and the U.S. State

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on December 14, 2022 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Brittney Griner’s ordeal in Russia is over. But she has been secreted away for “reintegration” and the U.S. continues its own brand of international hostage taking.

  • Hakeem Jeffries, left, kneeling with the Rev. Al Sharpton and Mayor Bill DeBlasio to commemorate the anniversary of George Floyd’s death. (Photo: Gabriela Bhaskar for The New York Times)

    Hakeem Jeffries and the railroad workers

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on December 7, 2022 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    A new Black “first” came along at the same moment that the Democratic Party showed itself to be a servant of the ruling classes. Hakeem Jeffries is a very willing tool of powerful people. There is no reason to celebrate his ascension to the House Minority Leader position.

  • Anti-bail protest in New York City (Photo: Matthew McDermott, NY Post)

    Politicians make Black people the face of crime

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on November 2, 2022 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    Manufactured crime panics are still a successful method of getting votes from white people.

  • President Joe Biden addresses to the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly, September 21, 2022, at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

    Biden lies at the United Nations

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on September 28, 2022 (more by Black Agenda Report)  |

    U.S. presidents routinely violate international law and the United Nations Charter. Yet every year they appear before that body and proclaim American innocence.

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